Originally posted by: Dunedain
I take it the source of these are the high definition versions that were broadcast in England? If so, has a correction been applied to the video and to the audio to get rid of the PAL speed up, so the video and audio now play at the same speed they would if they had been broadcast in NTSC format originally? Thanks for any info.
I take it the source of these are the high definition versions that were broadcast in England? If so, has a correction been applied to the video and to the audio to get rid of the PAL speed up, so the video and audio now play at the same speed they would if they had been broadcast in NTSC format originally? Thanks for any info.
Actually, I think the source for most of the Wookie Groomer 1080p versions was German. The British SkyTV transfers were lacking in bitrate. Not as much as the sucky US broadcasts, but still the German ones were the best. Unfortunately (for English speakers), the German versions were dubbed and had German-language subs and title crawl. So I believe those scenes are from the Sky Broadcast.
The framerate has been dropped to 23.976, and audio is English with the correct pitch, in 5.1 channels.
The fact that it's the 2004 DVD-spec movie aside, these are amazing, amazing transfers. And the 10GB+ versions go some way to fixing even those inherent problems!
Wookie Groomer is my favourite HD super-freak.